Protein key to fighting and preventing obesity discovered

Protein key to fighting and preventing obesity discovered: University of Florida researchers and colleagues have identified a protein that, when absent, helps the body burn fat and prevents insulin resistance and obesity. The findings from the National Institutes of Health-funded study were published online ahead of print Jan. 6, in the journal Nature Medicine.

Anti-inflammatory Diet & Foods: Health Benefits

Anti-inflammatory Diet & Foods: Health Benefits: While each plan has its own twist, all are based on the general concept that constant or out-of-control inflammation in the body leads to ill health, and that eating to avoid constant inflammation promotes better health and can ward off disease, says Russell Greenfield, MD, a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a private-practice physician who studied under Weil.

Help for Obesity - Augusta Magazine - January 2013 - Augusta, GA

Help for Obesity - Augusta Magazine - January 2013 - Augusta, GA: Results of a recent study released by Mayo Clinic researchers suggest that health costs due to obesity exceed even those accrued by smokers. While smokers, as compared to nonsmokers, can expect to pay about $1,275 more per year for healthcare, obese patients see an increased cost of approximately $1,850 per year compared to people of normal weight

Treating obesity: Slim pickings | The Economist

Treating obesity: Slim pickings | The Economist: This demand is driven by two factors. First, and most obvious, people are getting fatter. Second, although pharmaceutical companies excel at treating the diseases that come with obesity, they have been conspicuously unsuccessful at treating the condition itself.

Weight Loss Pill Qsymia 'Gaining Traction'

Weight Loss Pill Qsymia 'Gaining Traction': Dec. 26, 2012 -- Sales of the prescription weight loss drug Qsymia, the first such drug to get the FDA's OK in 13 years, are increasing, despite earlier reports of sluggish interest.

Women Lose Half Their Weight: How They Did It - ABC News

Women Lose Half Their Weight: How They Did It - ABC News: “I was unhappy with my job, I was unhappy with the direction my life was going, and I had a hard time enjoying the little things that my kids wanted to do,” the 27-year-old mother of two from Pace, Fla., said. “My health was failing. My doctor told me that he didn’t think I was going to make it to 30 if I kept on [this way]. … It kept getting worse and worse.”

Fructose found to cause obesity by making people hungry

Fructose found to cause obesity by making people hungry: "This increased intake of added sugar containing fructose over the past several decades has coincided with the rise in obesity in the population, and there is strong evidence from animal studies that this increased intake of fructose is playing a role in this phenomenon," said Jonathan Purnell, of the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, who co-authored an editorial about the study, said HealthDay.

7 foods destroying your good mood | Fox News

7 foods destroying your good mood | Fox News: A delightfully toasted sesame seed bagel. Crispy, crunchy potato chips. An effervescent fountain of sweet soda. These all sound like comforting foods that can wrap you in a sensation of coziness. However, while they may taste so good, these foods are not always so good for you or your mood.

Are You Being Fooled by Zero Calorie Sodas Coke Zero and Pepsi Max?

Are You Being Fooled by Zero Calorie Sodas Coke Zero and Pepsi Max?: As a result of consuming too much processed food that’s high in sugar and refined carbohydrates, the majority of the population is overweight and many of the people who are trying to slim down by cutting calories are failing miserably. As such, zero calorie beverages such as Coke Zero and Pepsi Max are not the answer to weight loss that many people believe them to be, and to make matters worse, the chemical additives in these beverages can compromise your health.

Weight Loss Pill Qsymia 'Gaining Traction'

Weight Loss Pill Qsymia 'Gaining Traction': For the week ending Dec. 7, more than 2,000 new prescriptions for Qsymia were filled, according to Source Healthcare Analytics, a provider of pharmaceutical market data. That compares to 1,163 filled prescriptions for the week ending Nov. 23.

Stop Subsidizing Obesity - NYTimes.com

Stop Subsidizing Obesity - NYTimes.com: "Not long ago few doctors – not even pediatricians – concerned themselves much with nutrition. This has changed, and dramatically: As childhood obesity gains recognition as a true health crisis, more and more doctors are publicly expressing alarm at the impact the standard American diet is having on health."

'via Blog this'

Stop Subsidizing Obesity - NYTimes.com

Stop Subsidizing Obesity - NYTimes.com: Not long ago few doctors – not even pediatricians – concerned themselves much with nutrition. This has changed, and dramatically: As childhood obesity gains recognition as a true health crisis, more and more doctors are publicly expressing alarm at the impact the standard American diet is having on health.

Anti-inflammatory Diet & Foods: Health Benefits

Anti-inflammatory Diet & Foods: Health Benefits: Unlike the typical diet, it doesn't have a catchy name. Nor does it promise you'll drop a size by Saturday. It's not even really a diet, per se, but actually an eating plan for life.

It's the so-called anti-inflammatory diet -- or rather, anti-inflammatory diets.

A half-dozen or more diet books are based on the anti-inflammatory idea -- and numerous web sites promote "anti-inflammatory" eating. Each has its own spin

Depression and the Anti-Inflammatory Diet

Depression and the Anti-Inflammatory Diet: Dr. Weil is a strong believer of the anti-inflammatory diet and the benefits it provides. One such benefit is helping with depression as he explains how inflammation can negatively affect depression.Learn more about Spontaneous Happiness, Dr. Weil's latest book and online program

Intensive weight-loss intervention linked with increased chance of partial remission from diabetes

Intensive weight-loss intervention linked with increased chance of partial remission from diabetes: Among overweight adults, participation in an intensive lifestyle intervention (that included counseling sessions and targets to reduce caloric intake and increase physical activity) was associated with a greater likelihood of partial remission of type 2 diabetes; however, the absolute remission rates were modest, according to a study in the December 19 issue of JAMA.

Aerobic Exercise Better For Fat And Weight Loss Than Resistance Training

Aerobic Exercise Better For Fat And Weight Loss Than Resistance Training: Al exercise is good exercise and there is a 100 percent chance you will lose weight if you consume fewer calories than you burn, but if you are interested in optimizing fat and weight loss after the holidays, aerobic training is the best way to go, according to Duke researchers.

Whole eggs improve weight loss and cholesterol profile in metabolic syndrome - National PCOS | Examiner.com

Whole eggs improve weight loss and cholesterol profile in metabolic syndrome - National PCOS | Examiner.com: Consuming whole eggs improves blood lipids like cholesterol and triglycerides in people with metabolic syndrome, a condition commonly associated with polycystic ovarian syndrome or PCOS according to a review of new research, published Dec. 14 on Eurekalert.

Metabolic syndrome - PubMed Health

Metabolic syndrome - PubMed Health: Metabolic syndrome is becoming more and more common in the United States. Researchers are not sure whether the syndrome is due to one single cause, but all of the risks for the syndrome are related to obesity.

The two most important risk factors for metabolic syndrome are:

Extra weight around the middle and upper parts of the body (central obesity). The body may be described as "apple-shaped."


Insulin resistance. The the body uses insulin less effectively than normal. Insulin is needed to help control the amount of sugar in the body. As a result, blood sugar and fat levels rise.

Weight Loss Achieved by 2 Lifestyle Interventions

Weight Loss Achieved by 2 Lifestyle Interventions: Two different lifestyle interventions modeled after those delivered in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) produced significant weight loss among overweight or obese adults in a primary care setting, according to a study published online December 10 in the Archives of Internal Medicine by Jun Ma, MD, PhD, from the Department of Health Services Research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, and the Department of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, and colleagues.

Marijauna use linked to onset of binge-eating, obesity and depression - National health | Examiner.com

Marijauna use linked to onset of binge-eating, obesity and depression - National health | Examiner.com: Overeating, binge eating and the resultant obesity and depression which accompanies it may be associated with adolescents and young adults beginning to use marijuana and other drugs, according to a study published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

Study links TV in bedrooms to childhood obesity - SFGate

Study links TV in bedrooms to childhood obesity - SFGate: The report, published Tuesday in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, found that children with TV sets in their bedrooms were likely to watch more TV, have more fat and a higher waist circumference than boys and girls who didn't have TVs in their bedrooms. They were also three times more likely to have elevated cardiometabolic risk and elevated triglycerides.

Obese Females Better Off With Larger Meals - Health News - redOrbit

Obese Females Better Off With Larger Meals - Health News - redOrbit: “Our data suggests that, for obese women, eating fewer, bigger meals may be more advantageous metabolically compared to eating smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day,” explained the study’s lead author Tim Heden, a doctoral student in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at MU, in a prepared statement. “Eating larger meals less often lowered blood-fat levels. Over time, consistently eating fewer, larger meals each day could lower the women’s blood-fat levels and thereby lower their risk of developing heart disease.”

How to Help Your Spouse Lose Weight - Eat + Run (usnews.com)

How to Help Your Spouse Lose Weight - Eat + Run (usnews.com): As the New Year approaches, you may be starting to think about the weight you want to lose. But maybe dropping pounds isn't on your list of resolutions—instead, it's on your spouse's. Maybe this is the first time your husband or wife has decided to lose weight, or perhaps it's a road all too familiar. In any event, as a caring spouse, you need to find a way to be supportive, so the weight battle doesn't become a family battle.

Childhood Obesity And Daycare - Health News - redOrbit

Childhood Obesity And Daycare - Health News - redOrbit: “We found that children whose primary care arrangement between 1.5 and 4 years was in daycare-center or with an extended family member were around 50 percent more likely to be overweight or obese between the ages of 4-10 years compared to those cared for at home by their parents,” said lead author Marie-Claude Geoffroy, a researcher affiliated with the University of Montreal at the time of the study.

Childhood Obesity And Daycare - Health News - redOrbit

Childhood Obesity And Daycare - Health News - redOrbit: A timely study was published recently in the Journal of Pediatrics that linked child care by an extended family member or daycare with a 50 percent increased risk for childhood obesity.
“We found that children whose primary care arrangement between 1.5 and 4 years was in daycare-center or with an extended family member were around 50 percent more likely to be overweight or obese between the ages of 4-10 years compared to those cared for at home by their parents,” said lead author Marie-Claude Geoffroy, a researcher affiliated with the University of Montreal at the time of the study.